Corporate Culture/Organizational Culture: Understanding and Assessing: Explores some of the problems associated with understanding the reality of an organization's culture, the role of the leader in creating or maintaining culture and the perils of confronting the leader with an assessment of the organization that flies in the face of his/her preconceptions.Read moreDownload file

What skills make a great leader? While academic gurus debate theories of the ideal leader, HCG’s latest research reveals not one but three paths to success. Discover what skills make these leaders great and why they depend on each other for survival.Download file

Leadership Pillar I: The Visionary Evangelist

The Visionary Evangelist: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Fidel Castro share a common leadership style. Learn what unique talents enable these pied pipers to develop a vision of the future and influence others to join the cause. See what fatal weaknesses have made these leaders notorious.Download file

Leadership Pillar II: The Relationship Builder

Relationship Builders (RB) are the “heart” of every organization. They are the ones people come to when they “need to talk,” whether about a business problem, a difficult relationship, the political dynamics at the office, career decisions, or personal crises. Leaders with RB skills and qualities are accessible and inspire loyalty and trust. Their openness and sensitivity create a comfortable, supportive, “family” feeling on the teams they lead.Download file

Leadership Pillar III: The Manager of Execution

Managers of Execution (ME) are the world's administrators. They focused on achieving results and excel at efficiency, organization, focus and productivity. They approach problems in a methodical and systematic manner. Every team needs an ME to handle critical details, get meetings started on time and meet deadlines. They are natural experts in managing their own performance as well as the performance of others and don't hesitate to hold people accountable. Download file

Rich is a true thought leader, creating innovations that show others the way. The architecture of his leadership models reflect great insight, tested and corroborated by deep data mining. During twenty years of valued association, I've seen very few who are in his league.

Harold Fethe, Former VP Human Resources, Alza

HCG brings hard science to soft subjects. Their culture and leadership tools are objective and well grounded in research.